I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand… — Marcel Ophuls Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“In spite of her giddy airs (the phrase used by the bourgeois wives of Yonville), Emma still had a joyless look, and,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us. — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image